A system for executing a workload that includes a plurality of transactions for a first time slot determines whether a metered cloud service has a sufficient quota of operations available to execute respective metered transactions. For the first time slot, the system determines whether a non-metered cloud service has a sufficient processing load to execute respective non-metered transactions. The system executes the plurality of transactions during the first time slot when each metered cloud service has the sufficient quota and each non-metered cloud service has the sufficient processing load. Further, the system waits to execute the plurality of transactions of the workload during a time slot subsequent to the first time slot when any of the metered cloud services does not have the sufficient quota or any of the non-metered cloud services does not have a sufficient processing load.